// 1 signed byte for the strategy
    // 1 unsigned byte for the number of hash functions
    // 1 big endian int, the number of longs in our bitset
    // N big endian longs of our bitset
    DataOutputStream dout = new DataOutputStream(out);
    dout.writeByte(SignedBytes.checkedCast(strategy.ordinal()));
    dout.writeByte(UnsignedBytes.checkedCast(numHashFunctions)); // note: checked at the c'tor
    dout.writeInt(bits.data.length());

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.DataInput;
import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.DataOutput;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.EOFException;
import java.io.FilterInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;